WEST LAFAYETTE — Halle Blumling is supposed to be a defensive spark off the Central Catholic bench.

Thursday night, her offense helped alter the direction of a 55-41 Franciscan Health Hoops Classic consolation victory over Twin Lakes at May Gymnasium.

Blumling scored eight of her 10 points during a 16-2 run that turned a deficit into a double-digit lead.

"The most important thing for me is my defense, so I go in there and my mindset is to just play my game," the junior guard said. "It always helps when someone is hitting. It sparks everyone else on the team."

"It opens a lot up, especially when we have players off the bench coming in to hit shots," said Thompson, who scored a team-high 15 points. "When they were leading, we didn't get nervous. We stayed locked in and just played our game and executed our plays really well."

Twin Lakes led 10-9 midway through the first quarter, but the Indians struggled to find scoring outside of their top two players.

Taylor Burns had 21 points and 16 rebounds and Josie Gutwein contributed 15, accounting for 36 of the team's 41 points. Maggie Gutwein had the other five.

"We've been preaching that at practice about we need more people stepping up and becoming scorers for us and being prepared to shoot," Twin Lakes coach Brad Bowsman said. "Tonight, we didn't get that."

"At practice, we shoot a lot and I think we've shot even more because the volleyball girls have only had six or seven practices," said Blumling, who helped the Knights win a Class A volleyball title. "Our first game, we only had five practices and we were a little off."

Thompson said the ensuing practice following a game CC felt it let slip away against Benton Central in Monday's opening round was dull.

Thursday night, Central Catholic looked like a different team.

"I feel like tonight we came out flat and CC came out really fired up," Bowsman said. :They feel like BC probably stole the game from them and they came out and played really well."

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Taylor Burns drives into the paint for the Indians against Halle Blumling Thursday night as Twin Lakes and Central Catholic battled in the Hoops Classic.(Photo: Eric Schlene/For the Journal & Courier)